P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.
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Movies are just ridiculously expensive.
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Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
